Herbert M. Wilburn

January 19, 2024

UK M&A laws: tweak government has no power to rally animal spirits Premium

...That is almost double annual notifications in the US, points out Veronica Roberts, a partner at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills....

November 13, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Transcript

Transcript: Culture chat — Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve

...The series, the books, were originally written by Frank Herbert in the 1960s and ‘70s. I’ve already mentioned that Rana has read all of these books. Is that like 7,000 pages?...

March 8, 2024

Inside Politics

What Galloway’s sweeping win in Rochdale says

...As a six-hour adaptation of the original Dune novel of Frank Herbert it is near-flawless, I think, but I’m glad I didn’t see Part One in cinemas in 2021, as I think I would have found it very frustrating...

March 1, 2024

News in-depthFIFA Men's World Cup

Commercial rollout of Women’s World Cup criticised as missed opportunity

...Jenny Mitton, women’s sport lead at M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment, said the late sponsorship announcements pointed to a lack of planning....

July 19, 2023

HTSI

Sci-fi books are taking off again

...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...

January 11, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Legal services

US law firms hand out bonuses and raise pay despite slowdown

...UK “magic circle” firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will also pay its US lawyers in line with the Cravath scale, a person familiar with the situation said, as well as Herbert Smith Freehills....

December 31, 2023

Due Diligence

CVC’s tortuous path to going public Premium

...Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted 27 of its lawyers to partners. Latham & Watkins has hired Tracey Zaccone and Justin Rosenberg as partners in New York to focus on M&A and private equity....

April 16, 2024

Boeing Co

Calhoun’s Boeing turnaround efforts leave much for his successor to do

...The Max crisis, which required restoring regulatory and public trust in the jet, played to Calhoun’s strengths, Herbert said....

December 31, 2023

Legal services

Elite law firms flock to dealmaking Saudi Arabia amid global M&A drought

...A flurry in dealmaking by Saudi Arabia is attracting some of the biggest names in the legal sector to the Gulf state, as it seeks to compensate for a decline in M&A activity in Europe and the United States...

June 25, 2023

Film

Horace Ové — black British life captured on film

...“I’m interested in people that are trapped, black, white, whatever race: that is what attracts me . . . the trap that we are all in and how we try to get out of it, how we survive and the effects of that...

October 30, 2023

Transcript

Transcript: Two stock markets, two takes

...I’m good, I’m good. I’m representing the US on the show and you are representing the UK side. Katie MartinAs always. You’ve got like, the whole, like, bandanna with a flag on it and everything....

January 23, 2024

News in-depthBYD Co Ltd

Wang Chuanfu, the driving force behind BYD’s rise

...“If I’m shopping on value, BYD has got five models that are cheaper [than Tesla]. And they’re newer,” said Bill Russo, former head of Chrysler in China and founder of advisory firm Automobility....

January 4, 2024

ReviewMusic

EFG London Jazz Festival — a resounding finale with tributes to Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis

...Tom Herbert on bass guitar and double bass provided an undertow of warmth and the underused vocalist Eska was a highlight....

November 21, 2023

ReviewArts

Agatha Christie & the Dandelion Poisoner podcast mixes arsenic and old cases — review

...On May 31 1922, Herbert Armstrong, a solicitor from Hay-on-Wye in Wales, was hanged for the murder of his wife, Kitty....

July 31, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Arts

Films, theatre, art and music to look forward to in 2024

...But I’m more eagerly looking forward to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which stars Marisa Abela....

December 25, 2023

Fashion accessories

Men’s hats? They can be done

...As for the most commonly worn hat, I’m with The Libertines: ‘There’s fewer more distressing sights than that / Of an Englishman in a baseball cap.’”...

November 6, 2023

Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe

Lawyers face conflicting strategies for adopting AI

...Lawyers “always aim for 100 per cent and therefore tend to overlook that, even if I get even 60 per cent done by a machine right, I’m further ahead than starting manually from the beginning”, he says....

September 22, 2023

Richard Ovenden

A paper trail is a pillar of democracy, as Trump and Johnson have discovered

...Letter in response to this article: Imperial China’s grand historian has final word / From Patrick M Dransfield, Abu Dhabi, UAE...

June 16, 2023

Europe Express

A tug of war in Poland and Slovakia Premium

...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. The Slovak and Polish elections fall at a delicate moment for the EU....

September 23, 2023

Due Diligence

The latest obstacle to private equity dealmaking Premium

...They join from Herbert Smith Freehills....

July 4, 2023

Visual Arts

Curator Hammad Nasar: ‘What if all Turner’s best paintings were in Lahore?’

...“I’m thinking of it as Member of the Order of British Excellence,” he chuckles, enlisting another favourite metaphor: that of “pushing hands” in t’ai chi....

February 11, 2023

Lauren Indvik

Auction hunter: under the hammer and over my budget

...(Yes, I’m aware it is ridiculous to be emotional over things — nevertheless, I am.)...

January 6, 2023

Lauren Indvik

Auction hunter: how my ‘sleeper’ got away

...In the end, I’m not sure the bowl went for much less than it would have had the auctioneers identified it correctly....

May 26, 2023

FirstFT

FirstFT: The second-biggest bank failure in US history

...Don’t miss: “Person in the news” — Jim Herbert, founder of First Republic Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: May Day: Financial markets in the UK, France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland and...

May 1, 2023

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